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How popular is the baby name Gabrielle in the United States right now? How popular was it historically? Find out using the graph below! Plus, see baby names similar to Gabrielle and check out all the blog posts that mention the name Gabrielle.

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Popularity of the Baby Name Gabrielle

Number of Babies Named Gabrielle

Born in the U.S. Since 1880

Posts that Mention the Name Gabrielle

Maryland’s Open Data website includes a single table of Maryland baby name rankings (2011) broken down by race/ethnic group. This is cool because New York City does the exact same breakdown, and we happen to have the equivalent NYC baby name rankings (2011). So we ought to be able to compare and contrast the two sets of rankings, right?

Yeah, that’s what I thought…until I started looking more closely at Maryland’s data.

According to the SSA, these were the top 10 boy names in Maryland in 2011:

Mason

Jacob

Michael

Ethan

Ryan

William

Alexander

Noah

Daniel

Aiden (tied for 10th)

Jayden (tied for 10th)

But according to the state of Maryland, the top 10 boy names were quite different:

Rank

OVERALL

Asian &Pacific Isl.

Black

Hispanic

White

1

Aiden

Aiden

Jaiden

Christopher

Lucas

2

Christopher

Lucas

Aiden

Anthony

Mason

3

Jayden

Alexander

Christopher

John

Jackson

4

Mason

Muhammed

Cameron

Alexander

Jacob

5

Lucas

Ethan

Elijah

Daniel

John

6

Jacob

Nathan

Jeremy

Matthew

Aiden

7

Alexander

John

Michael

Brian

Alexander

8

Nathan

Andrew

Isaiah

Justin

Liam

9

Michael

Justin

Mason

Jaiden

William

10

Ethan

Jacob

Caleb

Kevin

Ryan

It isn’t totally implausible that Aiden and Jayden might have ranked 1st and 3rd in 2011, but Christopher in 2nd? Maybe if this were a dataset from thirty years ago, but not five years ago. The SSA indicates that Christopher ranked closer to 18th in the state that year.

And what’s with the two different spellings of Jayden/Jaiden?

Plus there are some sizable raw number discrepancies, such as:

Aiden: 588 babies (MD data) vs. 281 babies (SSA data for MD)

Christopher: 584 babies (MD data) vs. 256 babies (SSA data for MD)

Jayden: 498 babies (MD data) vs. 281 babies (SSA data for MD)

Mason: 463 babies (MD data) vs. 432 babies (SSA data for MD)

And now the girl names. According to the SSA, these were the top 10 girl names in Maryland in 2011:

Sophia

Olivia

Isabella

Madison

Ava

Emma

Abigail

Chloe

Emily

Elizabeth

According to the state of Maryland, though, the top 10 girl names in the state were these:

Rank

OVERALL

Asian &Pacific Isl.

Black

Hispanic

White

1

Sophia

Sophia

Chloe

Sophia

Sophia

2

Isabel

Chloe

London

Emily

Isabel

3

Chloe

Isabel

Layla

Allison

Abigail

4

Ava

Caitlin/Kate

Madison

Isabel

Olivia

5

Madison

Hannah

Kennedy

Ashley

Ava

6

Olivia

Olivia

Aaliyah

Angelina

Riley

7

Emily

Sara(h)

McKenzie

Natalie

Madison

8

McKenzie

Abigail

Zoe(y)

Genesis

Emily

9

Abigail

Emily

Payton

Gabrielle

McKenzie

10

Riley

Lillian/Lily

Taylor

Kimberly

Chloe

Not only does Isabel magically replace Isabella in the Maryland data, but McKenzie and Riley rank 8th and 10th — even though the SSA says they should be closer to 77th (!) and 28th.

Not to mention the raw number discrepancies, such as:

Sophia: 503 babies (MD data) vs. 367 babies (SSA data for MD)

McKenzie: 325 babies (MD data) vs. 71 babies (SSA data for MD)

Riley: 298 babies (MD data) vs. 118 babies (SSA data for MD)

Intriguing parallels between the MD data and the NYC data do exist. In both locations, Elijah and Isaiah were in the top 10 for African-American boys only, and London, Aaliyah, and Taylor were in the top 10 for African-American girls only.

But if we can’t trust the data, we can’t draw any meaningful conclusions.

Labels like “Caitlin/Kate,” “Sara(h),” “Zoe(y)” and “Lillian/Lily” suggest that variant names were combined here and there. I suspect this is also what happened with Isabel/Isabella, Sophia/Sofia, Aiden, Jayden, MacKenzie, Riley, and maybe even Christopher (perhaps Maryland merged all the “Chris-” names). What are your thoughts on this?

And now some fun questions for you: If you had to name a set of quintuplets, and all the names had to start with the same letter, which letter would you choose? Why? And, what names would you choose? (Let’s say there are 2 boys and 3 girls, just like the Derrico quints.)

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Below are all the names we came up with and how they fared on the charts last year.

First up, the names that made the biggest gains. (Some of these were on their way up anyway, so I’ll leave it to you guys to interpret just how much each one was/was not helped along by pop culture events.)